Ross played very well but I was lucky again...
game 1 : 42 for me on Scorps' start - 0-1
game 2 : La-Chi + Den-Paso for me, quite bad tix for Ross - 0-2
game 3 : Godd timing for Ross, too fast with the start - 1-2
game 4 : LA-Mia + KC-Hous with 5x6ers for me, LA/NY + Sea-NY for Ross, both longest but my start and 6ers were enough - 1-3
game 5 : very nice block from Ross, 0 way for my SF-Atl -2-3
game 6 : Sea-LA + SSM-Ok for me, LA-Mia + Winni-Hous for Ross. I was in bad situation after Ross opened 6 blacks so I tried to block and give up a ticket. I blocked a noth/south then tried to kill the 20 but didn't success. Last chance was a final draw, I found Winni-LR and won by 1 point... - 2-4

Very interesting games with very different situations, but again my luck was decisive...
Thx for the good match and friendly atmosphere Ross, and GL to AWT for the rest !

I was luckier in locos (8/6/6/4/3/3) which compensated my lack of concentration.

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1-0XO°+VAN-FE +DUL-ELP CAL-SLCAN2* +LA-NY +DEN-PIT
128-099: 8 locos gave me a perfect route, gnirlum was slow due to bad colours/lack of locos so I could overdraw for a 45er way including 5 6ers, he took cards then, but even if he had found 16 the outcome was clear

1-1XO*° -SF-ATL -NY-ATL BOS-MIAAN2 ?-21 WEST
048-079: worst starting case for me: gnirlum with 6 black, I tried to disturb him to get time for a northern way, but he started throwing 6ers (6) with no tic filfilled, my only chance was to find 21, but there was 22+17+13

1-2XO +CAL-PHO +CHI-SFE POR-NASAN2*° +SSM-OKL +DEN-ELP
110-119: nice route for the both of us, I calculated with longest tied but didn't see him overdrawing, so longest decided

1-3XO*° +DUL-HOU +TOR-MIA POR-PHOAN2 +SF-ATL +POR-NAS
118-122: I managed to block his longest (maybe gnirlum had no intention to go for it) and was once again not concentrated enough as I only saw one 17 tic fulfilled, but there was nothing to draw for anyway

3-3XO*° +LA-MI +DUL-HOU BOS-MIAAN2 +POR-NAS -DEN-ELP
128-099: bad colours on both sides I guess, I had to take missing colours face up and left many route gaps open for gnirlum to block but he seemed to have own problems with his track

All three games were interesting and difficult. First game we let brad sneak in van mon + longest after killing drake and it was enough for them to win by 1...ARG!! Game 2 brad/drake were unlucky to be in each other's way and Game 3 we got lucky Drake had a tic dead....phew!!!